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[Letter to] Dear Wife [manuscript]

by: Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847; [Phelps, Charlotte], recipient

Publication date: 1835

Topics: Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847, Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, Abolitionists

Publisher: Norwalk, Ct.

Collection: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Associates of the Boston Public Library / The Boston Foundation

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Holograph, signed

Title devised by cataloger

Amos A. Phelps described to his wife, Charlotte, his travel to New York via Farmington and New Haven, and gives a reason why he decided to come to Norwalk instead of staying in New York. He then talks about domestic affairs, including his plan to put an addition to his motheŕs house in Farmington to make it a convenient home for themselves, and for his mother when they are not there